Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This month 's Gold St*r Award goes to another of our friendly knitting machine shops which goes beyond the call of duty when it comes to satisfying the customers . |
| 2 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 3 | It is possible and convenient to select a perspective on the scope , associations and labels for subjects which coincides with the way in which those subjects are handled in the literature . |
| 4 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 5 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 6 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 7 | Quite apart from the doubts it casts on the multitude of extensive verbatim passages in Johanson 's engaging account , this and other changes make one wonder whether legal evidence has become a consideration in reporting scientific expeditions . |
| 8 | In creating specialist organists or choir trainers it contributes to the achievement of the highest musical standards , but does not generally offer all-round experience . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc has signed a long-term lease for three buildings in Chelmsford , Massachusetts to consolidate the four existing offices it has in the state . |
| 10 | To my eyes it looks like the pattern , though I know with my head that it 's the background . |
| 11 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 12 | Should Japan be restricted in the number of cars it sells in the UK ? |
| 13 | As the company wants to increase the number of cars it sells in the UK rather than maximise profits , that is likely to mean price cuts . |
| 14 | It is concerned with what is possible in the context of the strengths and weaknesses of the company and the threats and opportunities it perceives in the world outside the company , the environment in which it operates . |
| 15 | It is necessary that the people of Northern Ireland fully appreciate the importance to the community of the Constitutional Convention , and the opportunities it offers to the public and its elected representatives to determine the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | ‘ Practice ’ need not be eschewed as part of higher education ; but its presence in the curriculum must be justified in terms of the opportunities it affords for the student 's critical reflection . |
| 17 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 18 | The vision of the fabliaux offered by R. Howard Bloch ( 1986 ) seems to fit this definition squarely : he sees fabliau narrative as the origin and catalyst of sexual desire ; in reading , or writing , the fabliaux , sexual experience is purely linguistic : " " if any pleasure is attached to sex in the fabliaux it comes from the deferral in speech , of speech , substituting for the act " " . |
| 19 | I think that is a , there is a need to look into this , it is an area where we have n't looked into at the moment , and when you consider the valuable work that our staff in the D S O organisation does , and the profit it makes for this county council , and the savings it makes for the county council , it would be sensible for us to also look into building maintenance as well . |
| 20 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 21 | Fundamentally , the program must present the demands it makes on the class as worthwhile , achievable and preferably , enjoyable . |
| 22 | Within 6 months he excels at the art . |
| 23 | What mediates between the de-limited artistic field ( and the other properly cultural fields ) and the large social field , in other words what mediates between the field of production and consumption , is for Bourdieu the education system . |
| 24 | The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department . |
| 25 | One day the law may re-examine the place in our law of combination and of the ‘ chasm ’ between lawful and unlawful acts which exists in the case of an individual , but the latest judicial pronouncements suggest a retreat from liability rather than an advance towards a principle that the intentional infliction of harm without justification is actionable . |
| 26 | Simply by putting relatively isolated community groups together Highlander is able to convey a sense of purpose to these groups which springs from the confidence gained by the realisation that their problems are not confined to themselves , nor in most cases caused by any deficiency or fault of their own , but are rather due to outside forces of oppression which are also being used against other people in other communities . |
| 27 | Yet there were also passages of extraordinary beauty and rhythm , such as that in another of his Nativity sermons which reflects on the coming of the Three Wise Men and was to inspire Eliot 's ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ . |
| 28 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 29 | All very comfortable , very ordinary — and the very opposite of Peter Brook 's astonishing Impressions de Pelleas which opens at the Tramway tonight . |
| 30 | There is a six-year Statute of Limitations which relates to the period from the date at which the competing claim was first asserted ( not at the time the work of art was stolen nor the date of subsequent sale ) . |